John Colley is Professor of Practice and Associate Dean at Warwick Business School teaching MBA and executive education students. From Finance Director and Managing Director at British Gypsum, John rose through leadership roles to become Group Managing Director at a FTSE 100 business and Executive Managing Director at a French CAC 40 business. Having chaired a listed business and a number of privately owned businesses, including private equity and family owned, he remains sought after for advice at board level. He has conducted corporate transactions throughout his career and studies and teaches strategy, M&A and private equity. Entering academia with a PhD from Nottingham University, Professor Colley has unique business insight that bridges practise and theory. He is highly quoted for his expertise and has written for the international press and popular business journals.

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Getting M&A Right.- Part II. M&A: Strategy, Pricing and Integration.- 2. Strategic Growth Options and Respective Risk Profiles.- 3. Improving Integration Performance and Synergy Extraction.- Part III. M&A: The Private Equity Way-What Is There to Be Learnt?.- 4. Private Equity: A Rising Power.- 5. Comparing Private Equity and Corporate Approaches to M&A.- 6. The Future of Private Equity.- Part IV. Valuation, Process, Governance and Case Studies.- 7. Business Valuation, Process and Negotiation.- 8. Effective Governance and M&A.- 9. Case Studies.- Part V. Conclusions.- 10. Ten 'Rules' to Improve Your M&A Performance.- Index.